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there not stigmatose, greenish as well as the whole style ; berry fleshy, 
more or less globose, crowned with the cupuliform calyx-limb and with 
the remains of the disk, typically 6- to 8-celled; the cells one-seeded ; 
seeds reniform ; testa whitish-yellow. In bushy hilly places on a sandy 
clay soil, between Lopollo and the great lake Ivantadla ; fl. and young 
fr. Jan. 1860. No. 2567. 
4. F. stenophylla Welw. ex Hiern, Jc. 
Huitta—aA herb, scarcely a foot high ; rootstock woody ; stems 
several, erect, occasionally flowering before the expansion of the leaves, 
of a pretty green colour ; flowersfrom whitish to violet-purplish, with 
a violet-blue tinge. In bushy pastures on the right bank of the 
Lopollo stream, between Lopollo and Catumba, sparingly ; fl. Nov. 
and Dec. 1859 ; fr. 1860. No. 2570. 
5. F. lactiflora Welw. ex Hiern, l.c., p. 156. 
Houiitra.—An erect herb or undershrub, 1 to 2 ft. high, with the 
habit of a Phlomis ; rootstock woody ; stems several, strict ; flowers 
handsome, milk-white ; calyx-teeth rather long ; stigma crown-shaped. 
In hilly thickets near Lopollo ; fl. Jan. 1860 ; fr. April 1860. No. 2569. 
32. CUVIERA DC.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 112. 
1. C, angolensis Welw. ex K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. 
Pflanzenfam., iv. 4, p. 94, fig. 33, J (1891), without descriptive 
diagnosis. 
A small glabrous pyramidal tree, 12 to 20 ft. high, or in 
cultivated fields (arimos) usually only 8 to 12 ft.; sap milky ; 
trunk slender, straight, destitute of branches below, but densely 
armed with opposite, decussate, strong, very acute, quite patent 
spines of 1 to 2 in. in length; branches and branchlets green, 
the latter swelled at the nodes; leaves oblong, opposite, usually 
cuspidate at the apex, oblique and rounded at the base, papery, 
smooth, 4 to 9 in. long by 14 to 4 in. broad, dull-green above, 
paler beneath, those on the older branches pendulous; petiole 
2 to 3 in. long; lateral veins about 8 on each side of the midrib, 
rather slender and beneath conspicuous; stipules sheathing, 
keeled, acuminate, about 2 to 4 in. long; inflorescence axillary, 
branched, 2 to 4 in. long, pale yellow-greenish outside throughout 
except a bright rosy stellate patch about the naked throat of the 
corolla ; pedicels very short ; common peduncle } to 1 in. long ; 
bracteoles sub-linear, ranging up to 1 in. in length; calyx 
including and adnate to the ovary; tube short, campanulate- 
ventricose, obtusely 3- to 4-angular, deeply 3- to 5-lobed; the 
segments elongate-lanceolate, unequal in length, bractlike, ex- 
ceeding the corolla, herbaceous-green, 4 to 2 or 3 in. long ; corolla 
shortly salver-shaped, fleshy-coriaceous, deep herbaceous-green 
outside; tube short, bright-red inside, at the base inside with a 
ring of silvery shining hairs directed downwards; limb 5-cleft, 
shortly rotate; segments lanceolate or ovate-acuminate, rigid, 
green, expanded in a stellate manner in full flower, valvate at 
the base in xstivation; the tips long, acuminate or subulate, 
contorted in the bud; stamens 5, inserted in the sinuses of the 
